Former western Pa. teacher faces more sex charges

A former western Pennsylvania high school teacher awaiting trial on charges he sexted and fondled a former student has now been charged with doing the same thing to another student.

HOPEWELL (AP) — A former western Pennsylvania high school teacher awaiting trial on charges he sexted and fondled a former student has now been charged with doing the same thing to another student.

The attorney for 37-year-old Joseph Rubino, of Aliquippa, didn’t immediately return a call for comment on the new charges, including indecent assault, filed Wednesday by the state attorney general’s office.

The first alleged victim, now 18, contends she had two years’ worth of cell phone and other contact with Rubino. She contends Rubino hit her in the face when she threated to report his unwanted advances at Hopewell Area High School, about 20 miles northwest of Pittsburgh.

Rubino’s attorney has denied Rubino sent the texts or received nude cell phone pictures of that girl. The second student also contends Rubino sexted her and fondled her in a classroom.

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